Structural Elements Analysis of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Movie

other people because she is not comfortable with attention from them. Mentally, she has many problems with anger management. Mikael : How come a 23 years old can be a ward of the state? Lisbeth : I‟m mentally incompetent and can‟t manage daily life. Mikael : Since when have they said that? Lisbeth : Since I was twelve. Mikael : Something happened when you were twelve? I‟m sorry, that‟s none of my business. Lisbeth : I tried to kill my father. I burned him alive. Got about 80 percent of him. Scene 13160-1324, 02:09:58-02:10:42 Minor characters in this movie are Mikael Blomkvist and Martin Vanger a Mikael Blomkvist Physically, he has white skin, grey hair, strong face, and he is about 42 years old. Socially, he is a father of her daughter, Nilla. He has divorced with her wife and currently having an affair with Erika Berger, editor-in-chief of Millenium magazine. Morally, he is devoted to exposing the corruptions and malfeasances of government, attracting infamy for his tendency to “go too far”. He is a hard worker and has a good investigative instinct. Gunnar : You are an author? Mikael : Well, I‟m doing a biography on Herr Vanger. Gunnar : I saw you on television. Mikael : That‟s unfortunate. Gunnar : Bit of trouble, I guess. No jail time, though. That‟s good. Cost you a lot of money, though, yeah? Scene 320-325, 00:29:11-00:29:34 b Martin Vanger Physically, he is a tall and strong man, he is around 54 years old and has blonde hair. Socially, he is the current CEO of the Vanger Corporation. He is Harriet‟s brother. He is a warm and friendly person. Morally, he is actually troubled since teenager, but no one knows. When he was 12, he saw his father raped and tried to kill Harriet. Martin brags about having killed women for decades, but denies killing Harriet. Martin : So what would you like to know? Mikael : Everything. Martin : You‟re the journalist, ask me questions. Mikael : What do you do with your girls? Martin : That‟s a good question. Well, before – I do what we‟re doing. Sit down. Relax, have a drink. I like that part a lot – having a chat when you both know tha one of you is going to die. After – I simply get rid of them. Far out to the sea. Unlike my father. Leaving them scatterred all over the place like trophies. That‟s not smart if you ask me. But he was a garish and loud man. He got what he deserved. Scene 1257-1268, 02:01:35-02:02:17 2 Setting a Setting of Place Many actions in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie are taking place in Stockholm and other places, such as at Lisbeth‟s apartment and Hedestad. b Setting of Time The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie has a lot of scenes taken during the winter situation, on the daylight, and on the evening. 3 Casting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie is casted by Eli Bush, Berna Levin, Scott Rudin, and David Fincher as the director of this movie who find the character for his movie as close as possible and suitable to the characters so that the characters in this movie are characterized well. 4 Plot a The Beginning The beginning story of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie is when Mikael receives a call on his cell from Frode, it seems a client is interested in meeting with him. Mikael complains that it is Christmas and thinks it has to do with the Wennerstrom case. But, Frode says no and says the client is Henrik Vanger and does not want to wait. He accepts to go meet with Vanger. b The Middle There are some climaxes in the story. At least there are two complications in this movie. The first complication happens when Lisbeth calls her guardian and says she needs more money. He invites her to his home and asks her to come in. he begins making advances on her again and says that if she declines he will claim she broke into her home and began exhibiting violent tendencies. The second complication happens when Mikael was caught by Martin at Martin‟s house in Hedestad. Martin then asks him what he was doing over at Harald‟s place, and Mikael tells him of all that he has found and he thinks Harriet found out about it and that is why she was murdered. c The End In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie there is one resolution that happens, after Martin was killed and police begins to investigate the Vanger family, Mikael goes back to his house and finds Lisbeth has gone. However he finds a print out of an e-mail sent to her by Plague, her hacker friend that says there are two people named Anita Vanger, one who died in London and one who lives in London since 1966. 5 Point of View The point of view of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie that was directed by David Fincher is non-participant or the third person not narrator, it means that the author does not introduce or involve himself as the character of the story. 6 Theme The theme in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie focuses on “violence against women and how women are striking back to justify their rights using their power, ability, and equality”. b. Technical Elements of the Movie 1 Mise-en-Scene a Setting The setting can be combined with the set of properties and dressing in this movie. The pictures below are the archive room where Lisbeth is looking for any informations about Vanger family and their connection to the serial killer and Mikael‟s house where Mikael gathers with his friend and family. b Costumes and Make-up The costume shows Lisbeth in her gothic style with all black outfits and mohawk hairstyle. Her make-up is also inspired by gothic make-up with bold eyeliner, piercings, bleached eyebrows and pale skin. c Lighting Although this film tends to use a lot of dark settings, but the lighting contributes to give this film the more dramatic effect. The lighting during daylight settings also looks natural without any engineering. d Figure Expression and Movement This movie uses all movement and figure expression. The movement and figure expression of this movie, such as: angry, cry, happy, sad, confuse, sick, and health. 2 Cinematography There are three kinds of angle, which are straight angle, high angle, and low angle. 3 Sound The music played in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie is an ambient soundtrack by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails and Atticus Ross. 4 Editing The situation shows in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie 2001 when Lisbeth is hired by Mikael as his assistant to help him to find out about the missing of Harriet Vanger. They team up together to solve the mystery of Harriet who has been missing for 40 years.

2. Amazon Feminism Analysis

a. Physical Equality Physical equality can be showed through her profession and her style. In this film, Lisbeth ‟s professions as a hacker and fact researcher are usually done by a man. While becoming a fact researcher and hacker need hard challenge, but Lisbeth can do it well. b. Female Power Woman usually looks weak and brittle easy. Woman can not do heavy job like a man because woman seems to be soft individual in saying word and action. In this movie, shows that Lisbeth has a power and ability to do what man is usually do. It can be seen when Lisbateh is on undercover and hijacking Wennerstrom‟s bank account. c. Heroism Woman tends to look as a weak creature and can not do anything when something bad happens to her, or her relatives. Lisbeth is not kind of woman like that. She can fight back, moreover, she can protect Mikael from Martin‟s action at the gas room. She chases Martin who tortures Mikael with motorcycle and almost shoot him on the bridge.

D. Conclusion

The results of the analysis shows from the major character, Lisbeth Salander, in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie 2011 reflected by David Fincher. This study conducted by researcher that the major characters in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 has been inferred from several aspects and approaches used by researcher, especially she uses one of the branch of feminist approach which is amazon feminism to analyze major character, Lisbeth Salander. Then the researcher raises the issue that how woman can be a superwoman in terms of perform well in her multiple roles. In this movie the researcher analyzes superwoman act by Lisbeth Salander as a major character. Then based on amazon feminism in this movie, the problem occurs when Lisbeth has different lifestyle than everybody else. Although she feels comfortable with her choice, but society does not. Lisb eth„s lifestyle as a goth with androgynous look, makes her ambigous. Sometimes, she ca be dressed as a man, with head-to-toe